- Adopted two Brazilian children with his wife Sonia: Bernhard and Florinda. Bernhard died tragically after visiting the Munich Beer Festival on 1 October 2005.
- Successful skier in the late 1950s. He was ski cameraman in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and supervised the ski sequences in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Later, he directed several movies about skiing.
- Took over his father`s sportswear company and still equips the German national skiing team.
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